Innovation and best practices for the Web

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The blog is written by Brian Kelly. Brian is the Innovation Advocate based at CETIS, University of Bolton.

This blog functions as an open notebook which provides personal thoughts, reflections and observations on the role of the Web in higher and further education which I hope will inform readers and stimulate discussion and debate, both on this blog and elsewhere, including on Twitter.

We then discussed aspects of Web 2.0 – and suddenly the Kinks’ song “Dedicated Follower Of Fashion” came to mind. How do you explain the concept of social networks and services which become better as the numbers of users grows? “Dedicated Follower Of Fashion” sums that up nicely, I thought.

However last week I noticed that on the programme for the UCISA Management Conference that Gill Ferrell, JISC infoNet, is giving a talk with the title “Are you a Dedicated Follower of Fashion? (Designing technology rich learning spaces for the future). Damm, beaten in coining of this analogy, I initially thought. But no, on reflection I realised that now I really am a dedicated follower of fashion (oh yes I am!), whereas Gill is clearly the leader of the gang (she is).

Now what other songs can help communicate aspects of Web 2.0? “I am the eggman they are the eggmen I am the walrus Goo goo g’ joob” struck me as providing an interesting biological mashup, with perhaps some character encoding problems at the end. But I’m sure you can do better than this!

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Hi Ian – Now you mention it, I think I did. And this was a line which just came to me; I hadn’t scripted it :-) I’ll have to use that again as a description of the .net generation who want to create their own content.

I’ve just noticed that Owen Stephens is blogging again this year at the UCISA 2007 Management Conference and he has commented on the talk on “Are you a Dedicated Follower of Fashion? (Designing technology rich learning spaces for the future)”:When I saw the programme, this was one of the talks that caught my eye, so I’m hoping it lives up to expectations.

Unfortunately it would appear that the battery on Owens laptop died shortly afterwards, so Owen will have to transcribe his paper notes later (I hope the ink in his pen doesn’t run out!)

It was interesting that the title (and, I assume, the abstract) could his eye. I, too, thought the title was great.

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